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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (310)	6/30/2002 11:08:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3467

GZ, You simply aren't well read. The term "martyr" is a polemical creation of the theocratic fascists that I was mocking in that statement. Of course, this went completely over your head, and that of most of the low-forehead types who hung around that NCO thread that you referenced. It was a joke reference that almost no one got. Bad for me, because I was play to such an unsophisticated audience. They simply are to dense to understand irony. And the medium of the written word on the internet is no help along those lines as all serious writers have come to find out. Words on the internet just don't come across the same as they used to in sophisticated journals like Harper's, TNR, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, National Review and a few others. Unfortunately, the Internet, while being a potentially great democratizing force, is also a tragedy of the commons. Thus, when a sophisticated send-up like mine in the mode of repartee is parsed and dissected into the vulgar commons of the typical mendacious Internet chatter, the meaning, punch and aim is lost. All that remains are incomprehensible words that are misinterpreted by the mal-educated citizenry of the nation. Who find what I said vulgar, without ever bothering to do the hours of research I've done on, for instance, U.S./U.K. imperialist tactics in the mid-Indian Ocean in order to ascertain what it is I speak of. The dolts merely think I'm being unpatriotic because I make note that we are up to our same old tricks, destroying native cultures in our endless quest at Total World Domination. Are you aware of the fact that there were 6,000 language groups in the world in 1950, and today only half of that survive? Only 3,000. And at current rates, American cultural imperialism will have reduced that number to a projected 500 by the year 2050. Is this progress? Or is this the destruction of human culture? You be the judge. -Ray